Subj : Should EMulation.... To : Amcleod From : Tinman Date : Thu Jun 08 2000 07:35 am RE: Should EMulation.... BY: Amcleod to Hax0r on Thu Jun 08 2000 04:54 am > RE: Should EMulation.... > BY: Hax0r to Tinman on Wed Jun 07 2000 09:27 pm > > > Well I have to agree with the philosophy, and I agree that you have the r > > to choose to break the law and pirate that ware -- but, what exactly is w > > with duplicating *ANYTHING* that you legitimately own for personal use? > > Blatant pieces of kiss-up, legislative injustice like the DCMA aside... > > So long as you are doing it _for_your_own_use_ I don't think there's anythin > wrong with it. If you want to take all your Van Halen CD's and mix up your > "Best Of" disk on CD-R that's fine. It's when you start giving them away or > selling them that you are essentially crossing the line. Crossing the line or not, there will always be pi8s out there, a classic independent example is [ME] ;-), Corperations take this into consideration and thay figure that in as part of the cost of the production of the product. Its just that now with everything being digital, and so many poeple getting hooked up with high speed connections that the big guys are starting to worry about it. If the music industry is able to manipulate (purchase) the legal system and get laws passed to outlaw services like napster, and the DVD-CCA/MPAA gets laws passed to outlaw the LINKING of systems which contain "illegal" material the internet will certonly not be the same place that we all know today. If you ask me, pi8s are shooting themselves in the foot by taking there activities into the mainstream [i.e napster] it's almost like thay don't realises that what thay are doing is really illegal. "in the old days" SysOps and warez groups had to be compulsivly carefull for fear of a rade on there houses. These days i guess poeple just don't care ú.'útinmanú'.ú .